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871.
by smolder 3y ago
> Blu-Ray players and Rokus/Fire TVs I'm not sure if any of those do bluetooth pairing these days. In retrospect I probably shouldn't have said "most" sources will do the pairing themselves. Some will.
872.
by smolder 3y ago
I like having a 4k monitor with a somewhat underpowered video card for the task. Most games that are graphically intense let you set the 3D render scale to something lower. At 70% render scale I get the benefit of sharp 4K text and UI stuff
873.
by smolder 3y ago
You should additionally explain why you think it's "trash", so that your comment might have some value to people.
874.
by smolder 3y ago
Agree with this, lots of sound bars are crap and even the ones that aren't are very constrained by their form factor. Good speakers can actually make very dynamic audio be less annoying as well, by virtue of being less distorted. Same
875.
by smolder 3y ago
If you use your receiver to send to a Bluetooth device, it's not really doing its job of digital to analog conversion or amplification anymore, it's just acting as an audio relay. Most times the source that is plugged into your re
876.
by smolder 3y ago
OLEDs really struggle in daylight, but are certainly fine in dimly lit rooms.
877.
by smolder 3y ago
The obvious answer to me is to have no remote connection.
878.
by smolder 3y ago
This access only needs to be physical. There is 0 argument for providing wireless access to the accelerator. Physically plugging into the car for accelerator control or having someone work the pedal are the only methods that make any sense.
879.
by smolder 3y ago
Yes, or if the police can do it. That would also be a defect, IMO. There should be NO control possible of safety critical systems by anyone not in the drivers seat.
880.
by smolder 3y ago
I'm on a sort of global village irc server I found a link to in HN comments, and I keep in touch with a couple other sets of friends through efnet and private irc (with discord relay). It's dead relative to its hay day, but protoc
881.
by smolder 3y ago
There is no mass market solution to both the problems Reddit solves and the ones Lemmy solves. Anything like Reddit which is optimized for easy access and broad engagement will draw a lot of non-contributing users, a lot of spammers, trolls
882.
by smolder 3y ago
You can't reason how the end of humanity is going to happen based on priors, because it's never happened. Whenever it happens, (and it will definitely happen,) it will be unprecedented. It also won't matter how many times t
883.
by smolder 3y ago
I think it's an error to regard "doomers" as a cohesive group.
884.
by smolder 3y ago
They're only too hot and inefficient when run at 5+ ghz. You'll see those same P cores perform very admirably in terms of efficiency when they are run in their peak efficiency zone, like in server and mobile chips.
885.
by smolder 3y ago
I've seen a lot of both: there are some power-tripping selective-enforcement bully types in those volunteer moderator roles, on Reddit or Facebook or Discord or wherever, and then there are the moderators that try to act with integrity
886.
by smolder 3y ago
I don't have a great intuition about this, but I'm wondering if it's even a tractable problem to stop human-like behaviors that we don't want (exhibiting "fear" in the case of the kill countdown) with RLHF, or
887.
by smolder 3y ago
Why care about anything if you're just going to die? Are you suggesting we should all go full on hedonism and give up civilization-building? What if people enjoy civilization-building and caring about things that "don't matte
888.
by smolder 3y ago
IME, the gas stations that sell ethanol-free gasoline seem to exist around farms or places where people use off-road gas powered equipment, though I don't have many data points. It stores for longer than ethanol blends (which absorb wa
889.
by smolder 3y ago
Early always-connected computers with no NAT led to a lot of hard lessons. At this point many of those have been learned, and there's a lot more depth to network security. Operating systems and key tools like web browsers and ssh are h
890.
by smolder 3y ago
If it's like the locked down laptop I had to work on in a recent role, running a portable browser is not an option. Everything had to be installed by admins via "service now" requests. It wasn't a particularly efficient
891.
by smolder 3y ago
Interesting anecdote. Can't say I wouldn't be interested to hear the details of her story.
892.
by smolder 3y ago
> We have evidence that the earth was much cooler in the recent past as well as much hotter. Whatever "recent" is to you, there are graphs comprised of plenty of good data which very strongly support the theory that industriali
893.
by smolder 3y ago
Announcing your theory that fractions don't exist or that pi is 3 would also be career suicide in math. That doesn't mean that mathematicians are overbearing dogmatics. Some ice forming somewhere in Antarctica is a fine observatio
894.
by smolder 3y ago
Relative to other pseudonymous links-with-comments aggregation stations, I think it very much does.
895.
by smolder 3y ago
If that's someone's job specifically, it's probably a small part, and not at all fun, in-context. I think it's also safe to say they wouldn't have unlimited resources.
896.
by smolder 3y ago
Brett Kavanaugh when he said "boofing" meant farting.
897.
by smolder 3y ago
You're right that it's about a space, or a field, which is in the name, but you're wrong in contradicting the other poster. The near field is determined by the radiating surface, the front baffle of the speaker. Room height l
898.
by smolder 3y ago
There's plenty of real engineering but it's only engineers that can differentiate the heavily marketed and absurdly marked up snake oil things from what's real. DIY people share honestly good designs that are underperformed b
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by smolder 3y ago
It's easy to trick people into overspending on audio gear because you can use their love for music and their subjective biases and their egos against them. It's like the perfect situation for slimy sales tactics.
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by smolder 3y ago
Beware, if you're spending $10k+ on consumer hifi speakers you're almost definitely getting ripped off. It costs only a few thousand at most to get the raw parts and materials to build truly world class speakers (quality-wise) tha

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